Figures printed on wood looks Russian help i d figures and writing on back

When I first saw these at the flea market I thought they were pyrographic it seems to be a printing on wood help ID figures and interpret the writing on the back
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They look like Soviet souvenir pieces; they're marked in Russian (which I can't read) and have a Soviet-era price tag burned into the wood. Beyond that, we need someone who can read Russian.

 

Hello Mugzinnys,
These two pieces are souvenirs from Western Ukraine. On the left is the portrait of the famous Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko (you can see his monument in Washington DC), on the right is the image of bandurist player (bandura is the national Ukrainian musical instrument). From the picture it looks like printing on wood. If you touch them, you will know for sure. If they are smooth, it's printing, if they are rough, it's woodburning which is very popular art in Western Ukraine.
The writing on the back reads: In memory to (names are not clear) from Lesya (family name is not clear), Sambir (town in Western Ukraine), Sept 14, 1970.
Below: Sambir LISPHOSPZAG (means forestry enterprise), price 2.20 (old Ukrainian currency)
I want to show you my portrait of Taras Shevchenko, also made from wood, and also from Western Ukraine. It is made in unique technique. I do not know the word for it. The background is combined of small strips of different types and colors wood. They are very tight to each other. The portrait itself is wood carving (like 3D).

 

Beautiful portrait Natasha!

 

Marquetry?

 

Yes, marquetry. " Inlaid work made from small pieces of variously colored wood or other materials, used chiefly for the decoration of furniture."

 

Thanks Natasha, for your translation and sharing your knowledge of Ukrainian history.
Mine is printed on wood. Yours is much more elaborate I love the carving detail work that, when into it to create the 3D effect.

Browen sugested (Marquetry)

1. inlaid work made from small pieces of variously colored wood or other materials, used chiefly for the decoration of furniture.

Testament (Zapovit)
When I am dead, bury me
In my beloved Ukraine,
My tomb upon a grave mound high
Amid the spreading plain,
So that the fields, the boundless steppes,
The Dnieper's plunging shore
My eyes could see, my ears could hear
The mighty river roar.

When from Ukraine the Dnieper bears
Into the deep blue sea
The blood of foes ... then will I leave
These hills and fertile fields --
I'll leave them all and fly away
To the abode of God,
And then I'll pray .... But till that day
I nothing know of God.

Oh bury me, then rise ye up
And break your heavy chains
And water with the tyrants' blood
The freedom you have gained.
And in the great new family,
The family of the free,
With softly spoken, kindly word
Remember also me.


Washington D.C.




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